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...effort to reduce power consumption and reduce heat output, I would like to make use of the PowerNow! capabilities to clock back the CPUs when the machines are idle. These machines are running a 2.6.9-42 RHEL4 kernel However, in my tests so far in using the cpuspeed daemon or setting the kernel cpufeq governor to 'ondemand', the CPU will clock back their frequencies in situations where one or more CPUs are being heavily used i.e not what I want. Having a look through the cpuspeed daemon src (there is no man page), it forks a separate process to monitor each CPU - however, AFAIK it is no...